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Bus driver injured in airport police car crash

Tanya GuptaSouth East
News imageEddie Mitchell A blue double-decker bus is across a carriageway on an airport road and the door is hanging off. A police car is nearby on a verge with the back of the vehicle in a hedge and damage to the front of the marked vehicle. Two police officers with hi-vis jackets are standing near the bus. One is looking at a notebook and the other is talking on his phone.Eddie Mitchell
The bus driver was taken to hospital after the crash

The driver of a double-decker bus has been seriously injured after crashing into a parked police car at Gatwick Airport.

There were no passengers on the bus and no officers in the police car when the crash happened at about 04:50 GMT on an approach road to the South Terminal, Sussex Police said.

Officers said the road between the Gatwick Road and Longbridge roundabouts was closed but has since reopened.

The police car was parked while officers dealt with separate incident in which a driver had failed to stop for officers and had left his vehicle, the force said. The crash involving the bus is being investigated.

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